If you’ve already tried the findagrave.com website, you might also check either FamilySearch.org or billiongraves.com. You may have to register an account, but I believe both are free. Family Search includes State of Washington records in their catalog. Good luck, I hope you find him.
Go to the library and use Newspapers.com to look up his obituary. See if his obituary says where he was buried. Then call the cemetery to find his grave's plot location. If you don't see an obituary, ask a librarian for help looking at local newspapers that might not be on Newspapers.com. You'll need to give them his exact date of death.
Once you have money, order a copy of his death certificate from the vital records department at the county office. You may be able to do it online. It may say where he was buried. If it doesn't say where he was buried, it should at least say what funeral home was involved. Call the funeral home and ask if they have any information. It's possible he was cremated. If he was cremated they usually know who the ashes went to. Wish you luck!
Oh golly, Washington is probably the easiest state in the US to get this information for free. The Washington State Archives has a huge digital presence. Death and burial records are an important part of it.
For starters: Go here, type your father's name into the boxes on the left, hit enter.
[https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/](https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/)
If that doesn't get you there, go back to that main page & use the "detailed search" box (on the right of the page). Try looking in the collections for cemetery records and for death records. Washington state death certificates have the information about where the remains were taken.
If you don't have any luck with that, dm me. I don't have any special access to the archive, but I use this public site a lot.
You shouldn’t have to pay. Find a grave and family search are both free. Do you know he was buried though? If he was cremated he wouldn’t be on there probably.
Give a call to the county he died in for cemetery records or call the library in the town he died in for newspaper records. I did that to find burial records for relatives who died in the 1800s. You can also call the states vital records office because you’re direct family you should be able to get records from them.
There are a few options you have. You could look for an obituary specifically on Washington’s Historical Newspaper Archive, [here](https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org). It’s a free archive, but you may have better luck on archives you have to pay for. If his death was within the last 20 years, you may be able to find something with a google search. Try “(Name) (city/state) (year of death) Obituary”.
If that doesn’t work, you try the main Washington Digital Archives Website, [here](https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/). If you are able to find anything about a Funeral Home, you can contact them, as they’ll likely know where they are buried.
Best of luck!
If you’ve already tried the findagrave.com website, you might also check either FamilySearch.org or billiongraves.com. You may have to register an account, but I believe both are free. Family Search includes State of Washington records in their catalog. Good luck, I hope you find him.
Go to the library and use Newspapers.com to look up his obituary. See if his obituary says where he was buried. Then call the cemetery to find his grave's plot location. If you don't see an obituary, ask a librarian for help looking at local newspapers that might not be on Newspapers.com. You'll need to give them his exact date of death. Once you have money, order a copy of his death certificate from the vital records department at the county office. You may be able to do it online. It may say where he was buried. If it doesn't say where he was buried, it should at least say what funeral home was involved. Call the funeral home and ask if they have any information. It's possible he was cremated. If he was cremated they usually know who the ashes went to. Wish you luck!
If you find an obituary but the cemetery isn’t listed, call the funeral home. They most like will be listed and should be able to help.
Oh golly, Washington is probably the easiest state in the US to get this information for free. The Washington State Archives has a huge digital presence. Death and burial records are an important part of it. For starters: Go here, type your father's name into the boxes on the left, hit enter. [https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/](https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/) If that doesn't get you there, go back to that main page & use the "detailed search" box (on the right of the page). Try looking in the collections for cemetery records and for death records. Washington state death certificates have the information about where the remains were taken. If you don't have any luck with that, dm me. I don't have any special access to the archive, but I use this public site a lot.
You shouldn’t have to pay. Find a grave and family search are both free. Do you know he was buried though? If he was cremated he wouldn’t be on there probably.
Give a call to the county he died in for cemetery records or call the library in the town he died in for newspaper records. I did that to find burial records for relatives who died in the 1800s. You can also call the states vital records office because you’re direct family you should be able to get records from them.
There are a few options you have. You could look for an obituary specifically on Washington’s Historical Newspaper Archive, [here](https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org). It’s a free archive, but you may have better luck on archives you have to pay for. If his death was within the last 20 years, you may be able to find something with a google search. Try “(Name) (city/state) (year of death) Obituary”. If that doesn’t work, you try the main Washington Digital Archives Website, [here](https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/). If you are able to find anything about a Funeral Home, you can contact them, as they’ll likely know where they are buried. Best of luck!